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DOC man joins fire fight
A Far North resident is among
the crew of New Zealanders
sent across to help while Aust-
ralia burns.
The group of firefighters left
on an 18-day deployment in
Tasmania last week.
Nationally, six Department
of Conservation staff and six
forestry firefighters were
deployed, including pro-
gramme manager for visitor
and historic assets Clinton
Lyall, from Kerikeri. Most
Department of Conservation
staff are trained as firefighters
to some degree, department
spokeswoman Fleur Corbett
says.
Not all are trained as front
line firefighters, she says, and
Mr Lyall may be there in a sup-
port role.
There are others in the
department on standby, Ms
Corbett says.
There is danger across the
ditch. In Tasmania, a 60-year-
old firefighter from Victoria
was found dead near a hamlet
on the Tasman Peninsula.
Police said the man was part
of a Victorian contingent
assisting the Tasmania Fire
Service.
He was preparing for back-
burning operations
at
Waterfall Bluff, which was two
to three kilometres from the
fire edge. Workers were sent to
the area after the man failed to
make a scheduled call-in.
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Australia s hot heart sent the
mercury soaring over the week-
end in parts of western NSW
and in Queensland. Walgett
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Post Office s 47.9 degrees was
the highest in 103 years of
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Far North faces
big roading bill
The cost of road repairs
is an increasingly
serious problem facing
the Far North this year,
mayor Wayne Brown
says.
As timber comes on
line, the number of
deliveries is expected to
almost double and we
have to ask who is going
to pay for repairs.
Road user charges go
to the cities so we don t
get a slice of that. Rat-
ing of forestry land is
based on low land valu-
ation so all this means
that residential rate-
payers are subsidising
the industry.
He said last year was
particularly bad for Far
North roads as the
industry logged through
the winter to take
advantage of high tim-
ber prices.
He says the council is
talking to the industry.
On a different level,
he aims to attract more
investment in forestry
in the district.
The Far North needs
more capital investment
and this could come
from overseas. Local
outfits such as Mt
Pokaka are doing a
great job in providing
jobs but we need a more
active capital market,
he says.
The council estimates
road maintenance costs
will account for 51 per
cent of its planned
expenditure of $365 mil-
lion in the next 10 years.
Nearly half the spending
on roads is funded by the
general rate.
Logging trucks cause
more than $2.5m of dam-
age to roads each year.
Yet the forestry sector is
liable for only about
$200,000 in rates.
Police have released
the name of the man who
drowned at a Waitangi
River reserve on January
8. Campesi Gino Huch, a
19-year-old male who
normally lived in Samoa,
died in the swimming
accident next to the
popular Lily Pond swim-
ming hole at the Wai-
tangi River. The reserve
was temporarily closed
to the public to enable a
three-day rahui to take
place following the
drowning.
The death has been
reported to the coroner.